[X4U] Applecare and hard drives

[Doyle Yoder]

I am just wondering, how often to shut off your computer or put your  
hard drives to sleep.

I have seen very few hard drives fail when computers were run 24  
hours a day. I can't say that for ones that were shut down and went  
through a heat-cooling cycle.

Doyle

On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Linda wrote:

> On 10/5/05 3:32 AM, Philip J Robar wrote:
>
>
>> In the 11 years that I managed 100's of machines that ran 24 hours a
>> day I only had 2 hard drives fail. The vast majority of people will
>> never experience a hard drive failure during their life.
>>
>
> My story is vastly different. I'm a work at home freelancer. My  
> dual G4 had
> three internal hard disks (the original, then two replacements)  
> fail in
> short succession (a 2-month period); and two of my Maxtor external  
> FW drives
> had one fail with a head crash six months into ownership, with the  
> other
> losing its mount point about every 2 months over the life of the  
> drive so
> far (now almost 2 years). I replaced a hard disk in an iMac DVSE  
> (graphite)
> after 3 years of that person's ownership, and the hard disk in my old
> Toshiba Satellite laptop failed with repeated I/O errors (even  
> after a total
> reformat) after 4-1/2. That's just in the last five years, with the  
> handful
> of personal users I help take care of.
>
> IMO hard disks are the weak link in a computer, and there are only  
> two kinds
> of computer users: Those who have already had a disk crash/data  
> problem not
> of their own making, and those who are about to. Once upon a time I  
> thought
> they were trustworthy and rock-solid, but now the only peace of  
> mind I have
> is extensive data duplication.
>
> Of course, YMMV.
>
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